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The directory where you start a tmux session in will be the directory that all new windows will start at.
My question is, how can you change this starting directory without closing your session?
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We can switch session from within tmux: PREFIX + ( : Switch the attached client to the previous session. PREFIX + ) : Switch attached client to the next session. PREFIX + s : Select session from a list of sessions for the attached client interactively.
When we start a new instance of tmux, while a server is running, a new session is created inside the running server. (For Advanced users) You can run multiple tmux servers. See -L flag in the documentation. By default, the tmux server is named “default” and the socket is stored in /tmp.
Switching between panes Alternatively, you can use your arrow keys to navigate to a pane according to your layout. For example, if you've got two open panes divided by a horizontal split, you can press Ctrl+B followed by the Up arrow to switch from the lower pane to the top pane.
Then type "exit" or Ctrl-d. Note that there is no need for Ctrl-b in this step. Once you type "exit" or Ctrl-d in the last remaining pane, tmux will close. You can also exit tmux by pressing : to go to the bottom bar of the tmux window.
The way to do this is to detach from the session (^b d with the default keybindings) and then specify a different directory when you reattach to it. When attaching to a session, use the -c flag to specify the working directory. Here's an example:
$ tmux list-sessions tmuxwtfbbq: 3 windows (created Tue Apr 5 14:25:48 2016) [190x49] $ tmux attach-session -t tmuxwtfbbq -c /home/chuck/new_default_directory This setting will be persisted - after you've reset the working directory, you won't need to keep specifying it every time you reattach to the session.
For the record, I'm on tmux version 2.0 (though I don't think it matters - I couldn't find anything about adding a -c option to the attach-session command in the change logs so I assume it's been there for quite a while).
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